Sentences with phrase «of lending ebooks»

The Labour Party in the United Kingdom is calling for an independent task force to evaluate the notion of lending ebooks.

Not exact matches

For example, if you're catering to an advanced horseback rider in your ebook compared to a beginner, that content might lend itself to more in - depth explanation of certain topics than content suitable for a beginner, who may prefer bullet point summaries of the topic.

Libraries use different systems for ebook lending, many of which don't communicate effectively with one another — so if a publisher chooses one platform over another, many libraries will have to do without their titles in electronic form.

eBook Lending Platforms — p. 22 by John Novak — For the purposes of this article, the definition of an eBook lending platform is one that contains eBooks from multiple publishers that patrons may browse and checkout.

Refusal to simplify pricing models, and refusal to inter-operate among e-readers and lending systems, means that libraries will simply opt out of ebook adoption entirely — something they can't afford to do if they're going to stay relevant in the future.

Libraries can «lend» ebooks a fixed number of times before they have to buy them again, usually at significant markup, and many proprietary, cumbersome systems exist that require a specific e-reader.

With traditional library lending, the library buys a certain number of eBook copies of a particular title.

Instead of selling ebooks for a one - time cost and allowing libraries to lend these ebooks in perpetuity,... Read more >

Perversely, libraries are likely to suffer too from the UK government mandate to lend all ebooks free of charge.

Yesterday OverDrive announced that they have resolved a technical issue with their library ebook lending service that had caused a number of Kindle - formatted ebooks not to appear available for lending.

3M Library Systems, creators of cloud - based ebook lending and a library - specific e-reader device for patron checkout, and OverDrive, the leading provider of ebooks,... [Read more...]

When library patrons think of ebook lending, they might be familiar with the powers behind the books, with names like OverDrive or 3M distributing content to their local libraries.

This program will serve a twofold purpose, first in offering libraries and their patrons even more ebook content for lending programs, and second in terms of helping indie authors in the process of getting their books discovered by a larger public audience.

Gardners also provides an ebook lending model for a number of libraries, under which library members are restricted to one concurrent loan per purchased ebook.

GoodEReader reported last month that the American Library Association had asked for and gotten meetings with three of the Big Six publishers to discuss moving forward with ebook lending.

Essentially, the leadership finally expressed that it was fed up with the current upheaval in public library ebook lending, with different members of the Big... [Read more...]

By demonstrating how ebook lending can work through this site, he hopes that publishers and libraries can put to rest some of the concerns that both sides have on the issue.

OverDrive, one of the nation's leading ebook lending platforms that supplies the ebook titles to school and public libraries that offer digital lending services, will once again be bringing its tractor - trailer bookmobile on the road, this time attending this weekend's National Book Festival in Washington,... [Read more...]

She took a moment out of her busy schedule to discuss the evolutionary growth of ebooks in the library, how the discovery of content is a top priority, what it took to talk Simon & Schuster and Penguin into joining the library lending model, and how libraries are selling ebooks.

As library ebook lending for both academic and public institutions continues to make steady progress, libraries are finally able to «shop» the competition to provide the best user experience for their patrons, the largest catalogs of bestselling titles, and investigate the available features of different platforms.

This agreement will make more than 5,000 technical, medical, and professional titles available for ebook lending; more than 700 of these titles are recently published works.

Overdrive is the largest company in the world that facilitates the lending process of ebooks to your local library.

One of the most frustrating aspects of digital publishing is the current sad state of affairs in ebook lending.

However, the survey found that, while the number of people visiting a physical library location may have dropped by a few percentage point, library website use is up, possibly due to increased access to ebook lending to personal devices and library subscriptions to streaming videos, music, and research tools.

Random House, whose price increase on digital versions of its titles for library lending, reiterated what can be great news for libraries, mainly that when a library purchases an ebook for lending to its patrons, that book is the property of the library.

Of course, the fact that a few smaller publishers have come on board and the nomination for a publishing industry innovation award lends a lot of credibility to the concept behind Rook, the free ebook reading app that lets... [Read more..Of course, the fact that a few smaller publishers have come on board and the nomination for a publishing industry innovation award lends a lot of credibility to the concept behind Rook, the free ebook reading app that lets... [Read more..of credibility to the concept behind Rook, the free ebook reading app that lets... [Read more...]

This affirmation came directly from one of the Big Six publishers that has been criticized for its business practices concerning ebook lending of its titles.

3M's Library System loves to show up at a packed conference and show off something new and innovative for the world of library ebook lending, such as at last year's ALA Conference when all the buzz was about the dedicated e-reader designed specifically to be checked out from local public libraries.

They like to tout that Overdrive CEO Steve Potash testified at the House of Commons in favor of eBook lending in October 2012.

Penguin made waves in the eBook industry when it pulled out of Overdrive and all of the other services that facilitated the lending of eBooks via your local library.

OverDrive, which powers ebook lending for over 19,000 customer libraries, announced today that it is broadening its educational library focus with the addition of a General Manager of Education and Chief Sales Officer position over K - 12 libraries.

Library lending of ebooks and other digital content is finally gaining a foothold in the industry as publishers and lending institutions come to some measure of agreement on how to make it work.

The Sieghart Review said publishers should not limit the supply of e-books in the same way that physical book loans are controlled, including the lending of each digital copy to one reader at a time, securely removing eBooks after lending and having digital books «deteriorate after a number of loans».

The essence of the pilot is to carry out real - time, real - world research into the impact of eBook lending in public libraries on authors, publishers and on the library service so that a suitable and sustainable model.

While the struggle for a satisfactory condition continues in the world of ebook lending for public libraries, some companies are still managing to make progress with digital catalogs.

As I said originally, I by no means think this is the Norma, I believe that ebooks lend themselves to authors who may be ill prepared or ill edited and yet take the plunge anyway so I understand your point of view entirely.

Much like the headache of licensing ebooks to libraries stateside, Japanese patrons and librarians have been frustrated by the lack of bestselling and new release content available for digital lending, for many of the same reasons that publishers in the US have balked at making their entire catalogs available to libraries, namely fears that print sales will decline.

The British government had formed a task force earlier this year to investigate the potential impact of ebook lending in order to consider mandating lending; the task force was made up of voices from various sectors in the book industry, but the news led to concerns that libraries would possibly suffer in an era of all - digital lending adoption.

Cross words were exchanged when each entity sent the other its scathing stance on the state of ebook lending, but that didn't prevent the American Library Association and the Association of American Publishers from going forward with a planned meeting to discuss the issue.

Penguin has really warmed up to the idea of digital ebook lending, forging a new agreement with the 3M Cloud Library earlier in the month.

Three public library systems in Minnesota, overseeing a total of twenty - five individual libraries, became the most recent of the eighty library systems across the country to benefit from 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Service's help in utilizing ebook lending for their pateBook Lending Service's help in utilizing ebook lending for their patebook lending for their patrons.

One of the polarizing issues in the U.S. ebook market right now is the conflict over public library access to ebook titles for lending, but we may be able to take a lesson from Libranda's new partnership with OverDrive to afford access to new and bestselling ebook titles to library patrons in Spain.

While many US libraries require proof of immediate residency to use their library, eliminating the benefits of ebook lending altogether, would - be patrons have actually traveled to the nearest library in order to sign up for library cards and take advantage of ebook availability, which has proven good for local businesses as these new patrons shop and dine in the region while they're there.

Peter Brantley, of the non-profit startup Hypothes.is Project whose goal is to develop a deeper dialogue between libraries and publishers, spoke from the library and ebook lending perspective,... [Read more...]

Some of the issues that plague both the publishers and the libraries when it comes to ebook lending are slowly beginning to resolve themselves.

But with survey data from as recently as 2012 indicating that the majority of library patrons in the US didn't even know their public libraries could lend ebooks, despite the current numbers that 90 % of American libraries offer digital lending, there's an obvious disconnect between the services offered and patron adoption.

Overdrive is currently the largest system used by libraries to facilitate the lending of eBooks, Audiobooks, Videos and more.

Tim McCall, Penguin's Vice President of Online Sales and Marketing, said, «Penguin is excited to be partnering with Baker & Taylor to expand our library ebook lending pilot program.

While their methods will vary on how they choose to improve ebook lending of their titles, only Simon & Schuster remains the only major US publisher that is not releasing its ebook titles for public library lending in any way.

Overdrive intends on releasing a massive amount of metrics based on all of the schools and libraries that use their service for the facilitation of ebook and audiobook lending.